Minister for Sport and Civil Society

Not to be confused with Minister for Civil Society.

United Kingdom Minister for Sport
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Incumbent Nigel Huddleston since 13 February 2020
Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Style	Sports Minister
Reports to	Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Seat	Westminster
Appointer	Elizabeth II
Term length	No fixed term
Inaugural holder	Denis Howell
Formation	1962
Website	Official website

The Minister for Sport is a junior minister in the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport of the United Kingdom government, with responsibility for sport and Civil Society in England. The office is currently held by Nigel Huddleston.

The post covers sport as well as tourism and heritage. The sports minister has at various times previously reported to the Department of National Heritage, the Department of Education and Science and the Department of the Environment.

Sport is a devolved matter in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland resting with the corresponding ministers in the Scottish Government, Welsh Government and the Northern Ireland Executive, although when the Northern Ireland Assembly was suspended, responsibility went to the Northern Ireland Office.

Current responsibilities

• Sport
• Gambling
• Horse racing
• Office for Civil Society
• The National Lottery and society lotteries
• Cross-government work on loneliness

Ministers for Sport

Name		Portrait	Term of office		Political party	Prime Minister
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Denis Howell		1964	1970	Labour	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Wilson
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Eldon Griffiths		1970	1974	Conservative	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Heath
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Denis Howell		1974	1979	Labour	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Wilson Callaghan
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Hector Monro		1979	1981	Conservative	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Thatcher I
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Neil Macfarlane		1981	1985	Conservative	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Thatcher I Thatcher II
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Richard Tracey		1985	1987	Conservative	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Thatcher II
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Colin Moynihan		1987	1990	Conservative	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Thatcher II
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Robert Atkins		1990	1992	Conservative	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Major I
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Robert Key		1992	1993	Conservative	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Major II
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Iain Sproat		1993	1997	Conservative	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Tony Banks		1997	1999	Labour	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Blair I
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Kate Hoey		1999	2001	Labour	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	The Rt Hon. Richard Caborn		2001	2007	Labour	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Blair
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Gerry Sutcliffe		2007	2010	Labour	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Brown
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Hugh Robertson		2010	2013	Conservative	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Cameron-Clegg
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Helen Grant		2013	2015	Conservative	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |
rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Tracey Crouch		May 2015	2018	Conservative	rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Cameron II
May I
May II
	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Mims Davies		2018	2019	Conservative	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |
rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Nigel Adams		2019	2020	Conservative	rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Johnson I
Johnson II
	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Nigel Huddleston Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Sport, Tourism and Heritage		2020	Incumbent	Conservative	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |

References

• Past Ministers for Sport (PDF), Department for Culture, Media and Sport